What I talk about when I talk about Haruhi (or how Haruhi was supposed to save us all)

I promised I would start talking about Haruhi Suzumiya this week, and so I am. I’m never really sure what to call these series that I do. I’m not an expert enough to call them a deep dive, and Dewbond already has the market cornered on the term shallow dive. So maybe, I will stick […]

The Otakusphere: Bad manufacturing, inner lives and a whole lot of spiky hair

So I have to start by being honest. I feel like every time I do one of these lately, I’m apologizing for skipping a week. I suppose really it’s my own loss. There probably were dozens of really great posts that I didn’t read because I was busy playing Witcher 3 or Trails of Cold […]

The Otakusphere: Speculation, space trains and fezes are cool

Here we are again at the end of the latest week of coronavirus craziness. We should coin the term coronavirus cabin fever because alliteration is awesome. Or cool at least. Kind of like fezes. Talking about references from the early days of the last decade, I’ve found a whole bunch of anime adjacent things that […]

A Mystery Blogger Award has appeared. It’s super effective

Ack! Coronavirus is sapping my will to live. At first, it was novel. Then it was alarming, and now it’s like an old sock hung up next to a stinky shoe. I could go on about all of the horrible traits of humanity that this disease has highlighted for me, but I’d rather talk about […]

The Otakusphere: Independent art, island blogs and let’s get this started again

Some may have noticed that I skipped The Otakusphere last week, and for that, I apologize. It was a rough one last week, and by the time I got done with my work week, I just wanted to turn on No Man’s Sky and go cruising through the stars. So that’s what I did. I […]